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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Support for Avro Logical Data Types in File Connector Stage

Using Datastage 11.5.0.1 "File Connector Stage", We ask to implement the mapping from an input field defined as Decimal (17,2) to a target avro field defined as "type":["bytes","null"],"logicalType":"decimal","precision":"17","scale":"2" into the ...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

User Groups, Folder visibility

Folder visibility Should work the same way as single user privileges. Now if you make a user group - everyone in the group can see all the folders and workbooks (though not the data itself). This makes view cluttered and users belonging to ANY gr...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Simplify the Removal of a specific select string or rusage from a running or pending job

It would be nice if we simply had the ability to bmod away a reservation without having to reconstruct the entirety of the bsub -R "blah" syntax. I would much prefer to do something like: bmod --remove-reservation mylicense [options] jobid ... V...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically update security exits without having to recycle DB2

We have a situation where customized source code had rebuilt because the original was lost. If we have to make multiple changes to get this to work, we have to recycle DB2 each time which is not practical for a prod environment. Even when insertin...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Communicate truncated reports

The setting for Data display row limit (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=settings-data-display-row-limit) applies to Exploration View, Quick Report, and list view. It also affects Custom Report. While this is a very usefu...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

cleanup of ER structures if ER was not in use prior to utilizing 'cdr migrate server'

If Enterprise Replication did not exist prior to the execution of cdr migrate server, then the utility should as its last step, at user option, dismantle and remove all Enterprise Replication structures in the background that were created to do th...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

WKC - Governance Artifact import option needed

when importing governance artifacts into WKC v3.5x using a csv file import, the second window asks for the "merge option" and provides 3 options to select from - Replace all values; Replace only defined values; and Replace only empty values. It wo...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Functionality already exists

Support multiple RDP sessions on windows to support remote 3D application

remote virtualization is becoming more and more important when client is truing to building a HPC cluster. They are intending to put the pre and post simulation work on remote clusters with GPU cards without downloading the files. And also make th...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Information on SSL certificates with Planning Analytics

Improving clarity on the rules around SSL certificates in planning analytics, particularly when clients want to use their own already signed certificates. So above all we need clarity on exactly what can and cannot be done with certificates from d...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Recognition of lower level regions in maps

Maps should have the ability to resolve lower level regions. such as boroughs, townships, etc. For example, Canadian regions such as Kanata, Nepean, etc. which can be mapped as points and not shapes.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration